Good Lord we are actually going to blow this.
Defense played like absolute trash, but more than anything else, I cannot fathom what on Earth Belichick was thinking when playcalling today. Why on Earth would you instruct your DBs to give so much room to the Dolphins' receivers? We've literally based our entire defensive identity on press coverage the whole season. And we just...start playing them five yards off at all times now? And this is to say nothing of the last drive in the first half with 1:40 left where we just...ran the clock out instead of trying to score. What a fucking awful coaching job.
What an absolute shitshow and a way to blow a first round bye. Even if the offense can make something of this last hail mary drive, I'm going to be incredibly worried about our defense. It's gone from being in the conversation for all time great to maybe not even a Top 5 defense in the latter half of the season.
